Statue switch

After nearly a decade, it’s time for Karnataka’s statue exchange programme with Tamil Nadu to be implemented.

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Nirmala Ravindran

March 27, 2009

ISSUE DATE: April 6, 2009

UPDATED: March 28, 2009 10:27 IST

Bangalore: After nearly a decade, it’s time for Karnataka’s statue exchange programme with Tamil Nadu to be implemented. No one really seems to remember that a statue of Tamil poet Tiruvalluvar was to be installed in Karnataka in exchange for Tamil Nadu putting up a statue of Kannada saint-poet Sarvagya.

A veiled statue of Tiruvalluvar has been sitting near Ulsoor lake of Bangalore while Sarvagya is still being chiselled out of stone.

The current governments in both states have now decided to end the exile of the two saint-poets by ensuring that the project is implemented before the general elections.

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